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Nice houses that looked identical were set catercorner to one another off the main road.

From The New Yorker • Feb. 22, 2010

But in the Eastgate Plaza shopping mall, just catercorner from Walla Walla's only De Lorean Motor Car dealership, the Army has stationed its missionary.

From Time Magazine Archive

At St. Mary leBow, he placed a pyramidal spire atop a Renaissance balustrade atop an antique classical temple, all atop a belfry that stands slightly catercorner from the church itself.

From Time Magazine Archive

Bonneville dam is really not one dam but two, situated catercorner to each other on opposite sides of Bradford Island which lies in midstream.

From Time Magazine Archive